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urn:uuid:6a45b666-d5ab-406e-995b-77ef2de2a70e 03 15 9781908590855 00 EB E101 10 10 02 30495105 01 02 New Historical Perspectives 01 01 Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z 1 A01 Maria Cannon Maria Cannon is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth. She is a historian of family, gender, emotions and the life cycle in early modern England. Her current research project Blending the Family: Affection, Obligation and Dynasty in Early Modern English Stepfamilies considers the impact of remarriage on kin networks. She has been a convener of the Life-cycles seminar at the Institute of Historical Research since 2017. 2 B01 Laura Tisdall Laura Tisdall is Senior Lecturer in History at Newcastle University. She is a historian of childhood, adolescence, adulthood and chronological age in modern Britain and the United States. Her first book A Progressive Education? How Childhood Changed in Mid-Twentieth-Century English and Welsh Schools was published by Manchester University Press in 2020. She is currently working on a book on age and adulthood in Cold War Britain, which is under contract with Yale University Press London. 01 eng 00 290 03 23 adulthood 12 HBTB 10 HIS054000 23 History 23 childhood 10 SOC013000 23 adolescence 23 old age 23 ageing 23 chronological age 23 life course 23 life-cycle 01 06 03 00 <bold>Adulthood has a history.</bold>This book explores how concepts of adulthood have changed over time in Britain and the United States from 1350 to the present day through eleven case studies. Ideas of adulthood are currently under intense scrutiny, as individuals increasingly reach midlife without necessarily acquiring the 'traditional' markers of maturity. Yet this volume shows that this is not a uniquely turbulent period, and it does not represent the overturning of norms that were previously settled and unquestioned. Expectations for adults have altered over time, just as other age-categories such as childhood, adolescence and old age have been shaped by their cultural and social context.In historicising adulthood, this collection is the first to employ adulthood as a category of historical analysis, arguing that consideration of age is crucial for all scholarship that addresses power and inequality. Collectively, the authors explore four key ideas: adulthood as both burden and benefit; adulthood as a relational category; collective versus individual definitions of adulthood; and adulthood as a static definition.The book also engages with the intersectional identities of gender, race, class, sexuality and disability, and how these affect understandings of adulthood: who gets to be an adult, and who decides? 04 00 <ul> <li>Introduction Maria Cannon and Maria Laura Tisdall </li> <li>1 'Middle Age' in the Middle Ages of Western Europe, 1300–1500 Deborah Youngs </li> <li>2 'The Most Constant and Settled Part of Our Life?': Adulthood and the Ages of Man in Early Modern England Maria Cannon </li> <li>3 Spiritual Maturity and Childishness in Protestant England, c.1600—1660 Emily E. Robson </li> <li>4 The Rising Generation and the Fogram: Locating Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century England Barbara Crosbie </li> <li>5 Seduction Suits and Gendered Adulthood in the Court Systems of the Early United States, 1820–1850 Holly N.S. White </li> <li>6 'They're Not Children Anymore': Juveniles as Adult Defendants in US Criminal Justice, 1786–2000 Jack Hodgson </li> <li>7 'Childish, Adolescent and Recherché': Psychoanalysis and Maturity in Psychological Selection Boards, c.1940s–60s Grace Worrall-Campbell </li> <li>8 ”The Pill for the Unmarried Girl is Hardly Going to Improve Her Character”: The Impact of Changing Sexual Behaviours on the Construction of Adulthood in Scotland, c. 1968–1980 Kristin Hay </li> <li>9 African-Caribbean and South Asian Adolescents, Adulthood and the ‘Generation Gap’ in Late Cold War Britain, c.1970–c.1989 Laura Tisdall </li> <li>10 Marriage, Intimacy and Adulthood in Disabled People’s Lives and Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain Lucy Delap </li> <li>10 A Road of One's Own: The Rejection of Standard Adulthood in US Emerging Adult Films Andrea Sofia Regueira Martin </li> <li>Afterword: Against Adulthood Kristine Alexander </li> </ul> University of London Press 01 University of London Press 04 01 20241128 02 WORLD 06 15 9781908590831 06 15 9781908590824 06 15 9781908590848 06 15 9781915249845 06 15 9781908590855 WORLD 09 University of London Press 20 01